Neat News 2417 (added 2022-08-13)
Reducing tinnitus by white noise

Public Domain by Thomas Woolner
Using a mobile phone app, tinnitus sufferers were exposed to white noise. About two thirds of the patients reported an improvement of their tinnitus. It is assumed that the sound leads to a rewiring of the brain so that the sound of the tinnitus is reclassified as irrelevant.
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